Siemens CCa vs. Amperex PW 6922

9999999,

Sam has a pair of CCa 50's dull sheild with readings of 86/83 82/67

He said the CCa 50's tubes can read out like this and is not uncommon.

What think you?

Gary

I think significantly better prices for equivalent tubes can be found elsewhere, but it's your dough...

Avoid E-Bay seller "realjazzcat".

Sam's prices are always high. Very similar to Brendan at Tube World who may have the highest prices of any tube vendor.

If you do a little homework you should be able to find comparable tubes at much lower prices.

Check with Andy at Vintage Tube Services and Audiogon member Jsutter. Both offer high quality products at real world prices.

Did realjazzcat(aka tubemuseum) rip you off too Tvad? he's the only one I've been stuck by in 5 years of tube buying there. Mr G- I would pass on those CCa's. That one weaker triode section will cost you in balance, imaging and sound stage. Generally CCa's are much better matched(triode to triode)than that. Look up 'audiotubes_de' (http://myworld.ebay.com/audiotubes_de) on eBay, and contact him. He doesn't have any CCa's listed right now, but may have some in stock(West German seller and very dependable).

Well, the cat's out of the bag...

Rodman999's recommendation of "audiotubes_de" is about the best I can imagine. Great seller. Excellent tubes. Equally good prices.

Damn. ;)